6 might cover it for some if you change the tenses.
5 during the week.
6 on the weekends.
I can do without when necessary.
Around 4 and 5, although I try to save drinking for special occassions, dude to the fact that I’m on medication. Otherwise I’d probably drink more. Why? Because I like the taste and being buzzed is fun.
My exact position as well.
#1. It’s a sign of weakness to drink. Remember there is huge money in lobbyists and advertising to keep people drinking even though it is to the detriment to society.
I’ve always been between 2 and 3. I’ve never been much of a drinker. I was usually the designated driver and that occasionally annoyed me because I was also the puke cleaner and hair holder.
Every great once in a while, less than once a year really, I like to have a mixed drink.
That’s me. I’ll have a drink maybe once or twice a year. Not for any moral or ethical reason - I just don’t like the taste.
Do explain?
Most people get worse when their inhibitions go down so I don’t tend to stay anywhere that folks are drinking to get drunk. I drink occasionally, maybe a glass of wine with dinner or something straight of an evening 2-3 times a month. I never drink in a social setting.
Looking at your list, I guess I’m a 2.5
Incestuous.
I was a two for pretty much all of my adult life, after I got over the usual teenage binge-drinking shenanigans. I didn’t enjoy the buzz very much, and to me the stuff tastes like the smell of a porta-potty on a hot day in Mexico.
The exception to this was a period where I put stupid amounts of cocaine up my nose over the course of about six months. I went from a two to an eight so fast it made my head spin. I wasn’t big into coke by itself, but I found the combo of coke and booze much more addictive than either drug on it’s own. When I stopped doing the coke, I stopped drinking without any real problems and went back to being a two again.
I am closest to #3. I drink a little bit on occasion, have never been drunk. (I was actually a teetotaler until just a few years ago.)
I’m not any of those. I guess I’d be in between a 2 and a 3?
I’ll be honest: I’m afraid of alcohol. Partly this is because I have an anxiety disorder and I’m afraid of virtually everything to some degree. A magical elixir that causes me to lose my inhibitions? I can’t decide if that sounds too good to be true, or nightmarish. I could use a drink to loosen me up, but if I did something I regretted once I was sober… I’d probably never drink again.
The other reason is that I’m bad at moderation. I’m bad at self-discipline. I had an alcoholic uncle and he wasn’t that bad of a guy, but I’m terrified of becoming that person… I don’t want to open the Pandora’s boxed wine for fear of what might lurk inside it. When you’re as tightly wound as I am, there’s a certain allure to… self-medicating. Speaking of meds, I probably shouldn’t be drinking booze anyway because of the drug cocktail I’m on already.
I think I’ve had alcohol maybe two or three times. I bought a case of hard cider on my 21st birthday. It was the worst-tasting thing I’ve ever willingly put in my mouth. Then I tried a glass of wine at a family Christmas gathering… I almost spat it back out.
I’m told alcohol can be an ‘acquired taste.’ If so, I think I’m happier not acquiring it. 
During the holidays and cold winter days, I’m probably a 7. The rest of the year, probably a 6 or even a 5 if I’m in fitness mode. Sometimes I decide that I need my brain and abstain for a few days, but I usually like to knock back a few at the end of the day.
Three. My dad was an alcoholic. I suppose I am the heaviest drinker amongst his children. I never drink in Saudi Arabia. I only drink with my wife. All in all, I suppose I go through one drink a month if you averaged it all out.
There is something to the genetic component. It is becoming clearer my nephew has fallen into the trap of alcohol at least, if not worse things. Scary stuff.
I’m between 4 and 5. BUT, I rarely drink, because of some meds that I’m taking. I was brought up in a family that frequently had wine with dinner, and I enjoyed it. I also like the occasional beer with a meal. I drank more frequently when I was younger. But nowadays, I’ll occasionally have a beer while I’m eating out. But that’s probably no more than a couple of times a year.
A strong #7.
Hmmmm. Looking at my family (I’m a 2) we have:
- Maternal gf: 3
- Maternal gm: 1
- Paternal gf: 6.5
- Paternal gm: ?? (Died when I was 3)
- Sister 1: 6 (adopted, btw)
- Sister 2: 3.5 (Dr, controls her drinking, also adopted)
- Brother: 3
- Sister 1 hubby: 4
- Sister 2 hubby: 5 (he collects wines, so I glommed on the “less rich” description)
- Dad: 4
- Mom: 2 (from what I’ve been told, she died when I was 1)
All the ones I am genetically related to average a 3.07. If you took my paternal gf out, the average drops to 2.5. Which actually sounds about right.
To me, and interesting follow-up question would be, “What do you consider to be a healthy relationship to alcohol?” Cross reference that with each person’s relationship rating to see how they perceive themselves and others.
I had rated 4.5, which I would put in a healthy relationship range. I would find the folks at either end of the spectrum to be in an unhealthy relationship. Those that are afraid of or shun alcohol as putting too high an emphasis on it, putting it on a pedestal. I would say the take-it-or-leave-it crowd has a healthy relationship with alcohol. Whereas the must-drink-must-get-drunk also having an unhealthy relationship. There is a big difference between drinking and getting drunk.
Moderation in all things, as they say.
This is absurd to me. It strikes me as much more putting alcohol on a pedestal to claim that something is wrong with those who will not drink it. Would we assume that about any other drugs, or just alcohol?